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Hanna v. Plumer

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Criticized by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
380 U.S. 460
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
105 of 105
Citing cases (total)
2,960
Treatment dates
1978
Criticized by some courts
At least one reviewed court has criticized this case’s reasoning. No reviewed court has overruled it. All 105 flagged citations for Hanna v. Plumer have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below. Wheeler v. Shoemaker criticized Hanna's forum-shopping and inequitable-administration touchstones as inadequate when unusually important state and federal interests call for Byrd balancing.
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The other opinions applied Hanna positively, applied its own direct-conflict boundary, described Hanna's possible effect on Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co. or other precedents, or used treatment language for unrelated authorities. Duplicate flagged citations and duplicate copies of the same opinion were each counted separately.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

2,960 later cases cite Hanna v. Plumer; 105 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Criticized

  • The court criticized Hanna's twin aims as inadequate when unusually important state and federal interests require Byrd-style balancing.

    Wheeler v. Shoemaker · D.R.I. · filed

    Although the open-ended balancing approach of Byrd may result in too much uncertainty to make the approach appropriate for a majority of Erie problems, when both the state and federal interests have the degree of importance that is involved in this case, a federal court must fully consider and balance both. The Hanna touchstones of forum-shopping and inequitable administration of justice have the virtue of certainty but fail to adequately address the more significant concerns of both the state and federal systems at stake in this case.
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